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Would a camel cape be entirely wise? Or a pair of houlihans a bit too avid?? Who cares!

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notyummy · 23/07/2010 21:38

Please join me ladies. Don't want to be too sad and lonely on a Friday night.......

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hf128219 · 29/07/2010 13:51

Libra I got a portable DVD player for our holiday anniversary , along with a Peppa Pig DVD.

We are actually going to do our anniversary tomorrow - staying in a beautiful Chateau with Spa etc. Babysitter all booked so we can have a lovely dinner.

Packing going badly.

monkeysmama · 29/07/2010 13:57

bloss what's the problem with Nice?

carciofi · 29/07/2010 14:02

Libra, thanks for the link, nice shoes and good prices. I ordered the Boden shoes to check them out.

I think TK Maxx sell last seasons/overstock.

You are a busy lady, Blossoming!

Hope the chicken pox clears up quickly MM. I had it when I was 14 and it was awful.

Happy anniversary HF.

Well done on the interview,LTEC

Can't remember who posted what but the Vanessa Bruno boots are gorgeous! Don't think I will get the Belstaff biker boots after all as I have Russell and Bromley biker boots from last winter and they were pricey enough so shall resist.

blossoming · 29/07/2010 14:02

I'll be in Nice area. Good that sis and bil will be too far to visit!

carciofi · 29/07/2010 14:03

Fritzi, your dress sounds gorgeous, have a nice evening.

monkeysmama · 29/07/2010 14:04

Ah thanks. Was worried as my mamma is there on holiday and thought something must've happened there !

blossoming · 29/07/2010 14:09

No mm. I live in the same place as sis and bil 49 weeks of the year and as documented, they really do take advantage at every opportunity. Looking forward to a break from them.

DolceeBanana · 29/07/2010 15:15

Hi all!

Traceyb-thanks for the Timberland rec. will have a look when they have the AW range in...sounds good!

hf - we celebrated our 15th anniversary this year too! 1 July 1995...was a hot summer wasn't it? Awww...congratulations....!!! How old are you by the way ....?

Bloss - it will be lovely to be away on a well deserved break...v impressed with your blowdrying and cupcake baking before 9.30 am Superwoman!

MM- Really like some of the stuff in LaR but yeah, dead right some awful crap questionable stuff too....

DolceeBanana · 29/07/2010 15:19

Libra - re nappy bags - I hear Gwynnie P uses some old Hermes Birkin as a nappy bag....now there's a thought...In poor country mouse stylee, I have used a battered old olive coloured huuuuge Mulberry, which was great...!

hf128219 · 29/07/2010 15:26

Dolcee Doesn't everyone use the Birkin as a nappy bag?

I have just turned 40. Child bride!

Very hot summer indeed. We went round the Western Isles of Scotland on honeymoon - when we came back everyone thought we had been somewhere very exotic as we were very brown!

I have packed 13 dresses.

DolceeBanana · 29/07/2010 15:49

Oh, hf! We are practically twins too! I was 40 last year. Child bride here also.
13 dresses.... Get you!

LetThemEatCake · 29/07/2010 16:29

Afternoon chaps

mm the pox and builders - ugh, that's a bad combo. Hope dd is on the mend soon

happy anniversary hf! have lovely hols

Plum you made me LOL with your friend. Ouch but hilarious too

very much liking the khaki cape

been at park all morning with the dc and some friends First of the 4 cakes needed to make dd's birthday castle in the oven.

Must confess to being in very bad mental space atm so may take a little A&W break until I can come back happy. Feel daft to announce it but I remember how lovely & concerned you lot were last time I went AWOL so thought it best to mention rather than just disappear. See you all soon!!

hf128219 · 29/07/2010 16:38

LTEC Whatever is up look after yourself and your beautiful family

vinovino · 29/07/2010 17:19

Hello all, thank you for warm wishes and tins of salmon

LTEC hope you are OK

Choo sorry about your friend

Well am about to purchase tracey's dress suggestion- love that colour red! It would be rude not to, ??

The situation with P is all a bit ridiculous. I guess I found out a month ago now, but he's still here!!? It's further complicated by the fact that he has 2 houses elsewhere but we are renting where we live so it would surely be easier for me to stay here with baby and return to work and exams looming. Oh no, he doesn't want to move. He claims nothing happened (I won't go into details but it really did happen I have much evidence) and worse still is the timing of the whole thing, just gross gross gross really. He doesn't appreciate what he has at home- I did a bit of googling, she is not pretty, in her emails she cannot spell, cannot understand basic jokes, is really thick, kept asking him for money, I mean- what was he thinking?! It started months before DD even got ill so his excuse about being lonely when DD was ill is all a load of bllocks! And it's not like he was at all neglected at home I honestly veer from thinking, hmm, maybe this will make him realise what an idiot he has been and he will now be lovely and of course deep down even though he is very bad for me I still have feelings for him because I have had 2 children with him, and then reality kicks in and I think yuck what a bstard. I don't really have friends/family nearby so it's difficult with a small baby as you all know to make that leap yourself. We weren't getting on but ironically he was the one who always accused me of affairs/flirting/etc when all along he was the guilty one!

Anyway enough ranting from me, I have done some therapeutic clearing out of wardrobe (this started due to thinking I might just up and leave but alas spaces have now been overtaken by new things! avid but not wise)

Also went and had teeth whitenened using zoom but they only got one shade lighter, and are now the same as before I had it done! All that newshoemoney effort for nothing really. Didn't hurt though, they said to expect 'zingers' of pain and there were none.

Oh and in a fit of 'god I must be hideous' I went to a harley street surgeon (yes, I am extreme) about my nose. He said 'your nose is perfect' and 'fits your face perfectly' and 'is the textbook lovely nose' and 'many people would say you are rather beautiful' and then sent me away. Strangely I do not begrudge paying silly money to see this man, I am now reassured that it would be mad to change it and risk a major operation and I would probably look worse afterwards.

Fleecy · 29/07/2010 17:19

cake hope things improve for you soon. Lots of good wishes coming your way, plus the now-obligatory salmon.

Loving that Topshop camel cape so will be keeping my eye out for that. I have a fab black military coat from last winter so not sure how much wear I'd get from the navy cape?

I have bought some KG tan wedge boots on eBay and some of the sold out topshop addison boots in beige. Am pleased to have got some at a not too unreasonable price. Fake fur coat is next on my list but the cheap ones just look so cheap so I think vintage is the way to go...

Happy holidays/anniversaries etc.

Another one who married at 25 here. What a marvellous age to get hitched to the man of your dreams

vin I'm so sorry to hear about everything you've been through. It sounds like he has been an arse to you in the past and I'm sorry you're the one that's suffering.

vinovino · 29/07/2010 17:24

monkeysmama sorry DD has chicken pox
I have been spending too much time contemplating my life's disasters in the garden of this place which I recommend, some of the drinks food is lovely

monkeysmama · 29/07/2010 17:31

I was there on Sunday Vino. Lovely place for a drink think.

vinovino · 29/07/2010 17:31

fleecy he has been a real arse in the past, so part of me is happy about this because I can use this to get out (not that anyone needs an excuse but it has made me look at the relationship in a harsher light as opposed to drifting along hating him and resenting him forever). He has issues with alcohol and his temper and also I think really he has done this to all his previous partners too, he isn't going to change. His definition of being unfaithful is frighteningly elastic. Unfortunately he has just been made redundant officially now so I feel a bit mean kicking him out [I am way too nice to people]

this flurry of boot buying is a bit organised of you all! I had better stick around for guidance

vinovino · 29/07/2010 17:34

oh hello mm! It is great when it's sunny, I only realised it existed a couple months ago.

monkeysmama · 29/07/2010 18:03

Us to Vino. Must've walked past tens of times. Do you live here? Give me a shout if you fancy a drinking partner!

monkeysmama · 29/07/2010 18:04

That'd be 'too'.

vinovino · 29/07/2010 18:28

I do indeed, that could be fun! Not looking very stylish at the moment though, most often more of a frazzled demeanour and coated in baby food (not even organic! must pull self together!)

walkingboots · 29/07/2010 19:24

Argh, I keep trying to post this to ABO and losing the post by going off the page and being otherwise incompetent.

ABO -- This might be totally out of left field but there is a huge vintage store in Miami called C Madeleine's and while I've never been there in person it's apparently 10,000 square feet of fashion wonderland, so just wanted to pass that along.

roary · 29/07/2010 20:39

Thanks for the holdiay support Carciofi and libra. I'm sure it will be fine. WE v'e just had a massive change in holiday plans and we re very lucky to find somethin new. WE've been going to stay with my parents' best friends in Edinburgh and Arran but their grandson (who is a tiny baby) and has been very sick in hospital so we are not going. We think he is going to be fine but the last thing they need is an invasion of visitors. So we got the last cottage in a farmstay in Devon insetead!

I had the first outing of the fab birdie dress that OWW helped me find. I got compliments from basically every person I saw, wore it over my paige jeggings (Thanks again to VIn for them). The dress is now back in stock in a bunch of sizes and I thoroughly recommend.

I would love a new pair of boots but due to my oft-mentioned freakishly narrow feet it's hard to find them.

roary · 29/07/2010 20:40

Was it bloss looking at the BOden leather blazer? I am tempted by it.

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